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Originally Posted by plumboz
Might be a strange question here on the MR MB, but I was wondering if any of my fellow writers still use a pen at any point during the writing process. I find that what works best for me is fountain pen and composition book with nice paper for the first draft and then after that it's all word processor. But when I try to do first draft on the computer I just end up constantly refining each blasted sentence as I go and it takes longer than forever to get a chapter done.
So, are there any pen, Sharpie or Ticonderoga #2 devotees out there?
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Nuh-uh. I
can use a pen and paper, but somehow it trips me up a couple of times every page - feels like running a race in clown shoes. I have a little notebook-sized laptop which goes everywhere with me, much like many authors keep a paper notepad. Somehow typing just 'works' for me, whereas pen & paper never really did, even when I had no electronic alternative.
Funny, huh? I wonder if people's preferences are sometimes related to hand-eye co-ordination, thought-to-hand pathways*, typing/writing speeds...
* I've known children who can't pen-write a straight sentence, but can type it perfectly - different pathways from thought to hand action, apparently